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Legal Rules Could Soon be Downgraded to Advice in Wales, but More Clarity is Needed

by Michael Curzon
4 July 2021 2:04 PM

A Welsh minister has suggested that Covid rules could be downgraded to “advice” in the coming weeks, just as is expected to happen in England on July 19th. But the Welsh Conservative opposition says that more clarity is needed on the timeline of unlocking. BBC News has the story.

[Welsh minister] Mick Antoniw said Wales was “moving to a stage where we are having increasing normality” but that ministers and officials would evaluate data ahead of the next review on July 15th. …

With no date set in Wales, the Conservatives have accused the Welsh Government of being “stuck in lockdown mode”.

Responding to reports on Sunday that England will move into a period without legal restrictions, where the public will have to exercise “personal responsibility”, Andrew RT Davies MS, the leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, tweeted: “It’s time for Welsh Government to provide clarity on Wales’s route to normality.”

It’s time for Welsh Government to provide clarity on Wales’ route to normality. We need to see a return to personal choice, and, as @SajidJavid says, mitigate the health implications of restrictions. https://t.co/lXDFDNLJd6

— Andrew RT Davies (@AndrewRTDavies) July 4, 2021

Counsel General Mr Antoniw told the BBC’s Politics Wales programme the Welsh Government’s “current thinking is that we have obviously an increase in the level of infections, but we have less hospitalisation out of that”. 

“We want to maximise the vaccination rates still further, and then around the 15th or 16th of July, we’ll have a review, and we’ll consider what further easings can be taken within the data that we actually have,” he said.

“Setting a date has its own problems because, if you’re saying you want to achieve these certain things on this particular date… it is still always dependent on what the latest information is in respect of the infection rates.

“We are certainly moving in the direction of a much greater normality.

“But the pandemic is going to be with us for some time,” he added.

There have only been minor changes to the rules in Wales since June 7th after the first minister announced a pause in a bid to reduce daily hospital admissions and allow time to vaccinate more people.

Ministers had considered permitting more indoor mixing, allowing more people to attend indoor events and reopening ice skating rinks, before deciding to hold off.

In Wales, people are currently able to meet in private homes if they are in an extended household with a fixed set of other homes, unlike in England where six people from any household can meet.

Nightclubs remain closed, as they do across the U.K., while limits on social distancing and how many people can meet outside remain.

The restrictions will be reviewed the week starting July 12th, with any further lifting due to be announced by the first minister towards the end of the week.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: UnlockWales

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